What grid square is the BF74 operating area?

BF74 is the live DXRadar reference square for the BF74 operating area. The exact portable or home QTH may vary within the square, but this page tracks the center of BF74 for planning propagation.

How do I find my grid square?

Use a Maidenhead grid lookup from your GPS coordinates or street address, then compare that grid with the nearby squares linked on this page. A 4-character grid is enough for most HF planning.

What bands are open in BF74 right now?

BF74 is currently rated POOR. The best bands right now are 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m, with 10m as the main band to watch first.

Grid BF74 Band Conditions

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator BF74. Coordinating at -35.50°, -145.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

BF74 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 105.

Regional Radar

SFI

105

K-Index

0.33 Kp

Center Coords

-35.5, -145.0

Local Phase

Night

Grayline window

Sunrise 15:30 UTC

Sunset 03:37 UTC from BF74

From the BF74 operating area, work the 15:30 UTC and 03:37 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses BF74.

Best band now

10m

Night operation should keep 20m on watch and move to 40m as the path darkens.

Closest operating hub

the BF74 operating area

This square sits in a mixed-region footprint and is best used as a planning center for portable, field-day, and home-station band decisions.

Latitude zone: mid-latitude
Local phase: Darkness
Aurora exposure: low at this latitude
Grayline: 15:30 UTC / 03:37 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: the BF74 operating area

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for BF74, then compare the global live ranking oncurrent ham band conditionsbefore changing bands.

10m

POOR

15m

POOR

20m

FAIR

40m

EXCELLENT

80m

EXCELLENT

● Best DX Windows from BF74 — the BF74 operating area

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from BF74 to each DX region at SFI 105 / Kp 0.33, and a current verdict. "Open now" means a suitable band is scoring well on that path; "Try ~HH:MM" points at the next far-end grayline. Band picks and status are a planning heuristic, not a measurement.

Target	Distance	Beam	Bands to try	Status
Oceania	3,728 mi	256°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South America	5,456 mi	101°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
North America	5,957 mi	35°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
East Asia / Japan	6,988 mi	307°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Southern Africa	8,147 mi	171°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
South Asia	9,695 mi	262°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Europe	10,834 mi	44°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for BF74

A planning heuristic for the local day at BF74, built from sunrise 15:30 UTC, sunset 03:37 UTC, SFI 105, and Kp 0.33. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 15:30 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

Grayline enhancement — low bands reach long distances as the terminator passes.

Morning

after 15:30 UTC

20m · 15m

Modest SFI — 20m is the daytime workhorse here.

Midday

local noon

15m · 20m

20m and 15m carry the daytime load at this SFI.

Dusk grayline

around 03:37 UTC

20m · 40m

Second grayline peak — 20m holds, then hands off to 40m.

Night

after 03:37 UTC

40m · 80m

Low bands own the darkness — 40m for DX, 80m regional.

Recent local activity

Spots touching BF74 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in BF74, BF75, BF73, BF84, BF64. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate BF74 footprint right now. That usually means you should widen the search to the nearest regional hubs below or fall back to 20m/40m for the next operating window.

Top DX targets

Where this grid is reaching right now

No outbound targets were strong enough to rank from the current cache. Check back after the next PSKReporter refresh or switch to the regional grids below.

Contest preview

Next major contest outlook

No contest event is currently loaded. For planning from BF74, start with 10m POOR, 15m POOR, 20m FAIR and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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